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Strong Acquisition Rumours in Czech

August 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems to be that time again. The GC is open and rumours fly around. This year, Czech company Redboss is expected to come with some M&A news soon.

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EA Mobile Hires Tim Harrison

August 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Eamobile EA Mobile is reshaping itself these days. Last week they hired Barry Cottle as new CEO and today, Tim Harrison has been added to the team as new director of marketing for Europe.

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IMG Awards Gain more Sponsor Support

August 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Imga The IMGA awards are entering their fourth year with wide support from their main sponsors. Adobe, Nokia and Movidia have promised their support as well as several other companies.

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MTV’s Shockwave Delivers to Games to Nokia, Invests $ 500 Million

August 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Mtv MTV seems to take the gaming space more serious than before. After turning many music TV stations into TV stations that broadcast teen TV shows to retain their public, MTV is now investing $ 500 million in gaming and has closed a nice little deal with Nokia.

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Jump Games Licenses Bipasha Basu

August 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Bollywood is gaining more and more traction when it comes to having mobile games released on Bollywood IP. Recently, Jump Games has announced the licensing of Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu.

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Airborne Entertainment: What Sucks and How to Fix It

August 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Airborneentertainment Andy Nulman, the guy who co-founded the Montreal Just For Laughs comedy festival, writer of the book I Almost Killed George Burns and now CMO and President of Airborne Entertainment thinks things should change fast.

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I-Play to Deliver Casual N-Gage Games

August 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Iplay I-Play and Nokia announced their plans to deliver a wide range of casual mobile games Nokia’s new N-Gage platform which is launching this fall.

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Digital Chocolate Adds 2 New Studio’s

August 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Digitalchocolate Digital Chocolate has announced to have acquired two new development studios in order to expand their mobile gaming production facilities.

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Barry Cottle, New EA Mobile CEO

August 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Eamobile_2 A few days ago, EA Casual Entertainment has announced the recent hire of Barry Cottle as new Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA Mobile, reporting directly to EA Casual President Kathy Vrabeck.

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Hasbro Goes for EA (Mobile)

August 16th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

In Glu‘s latest financial results, we already reported that Glu will loose several licenses from Hasbro as Hasbro showed interest in a partner that was also able to publish on console and PC platforms. At that point, EA was mentioned as possible candidate.